The Counting Game

[Ferdack]

1781: The siege of Yorktown (Sept 28 - Oct 19) was the last major land battle of the American Revolutionary War in North America, and led to the surrender of Cornwallis and the capture of both him and his army. The Continental Army's victory at Yorktown prompted the British government to negotiate an end to the conflict.

[PRINCE WILLIAM]

1782 Battle of the Saintes: A British fleet under Admiral Sir George Rodney defeats a French fleet under the Comte de Grasse, in the West Indies.

[DarthPorg36]

1783 AD - September 3 – Peace of Paris: A treaty between the United States and Great Britain is signed in Paris, formally ending the American Revolutionary War, in which Britain recognizes the independence of the United States; and treaties are signed between Britain, France, and Spain at Versailles, ending hostilities with the Franco-Spanish Alliance.

[PRINCE WILLIAM]

1784 With the Treaty of Constantinople, the Ottoman Empire agreed to Russia's annexation of Crimea

[DarthPorg36]

STARLINK 1785 is currently heading SE, between Indonesia and the Philippine Islands. Its nearest neighbor seems to be STARLINK 5775, which is a little SE and a few km higher than STARLINK 1785

[DarthPorg36]

1786
May 1 – Mozart's opera The Marriage of Figaro premieres in Vienna.
August 1 – Caroline Herschel discovers a comet (the first discovered by a woman) from England.
August 29 – Shays' Rebellion begins in Massachusetts.
Date Unknown - The last reliably recorded wolf in Ireland is hunted down and killed near Mount Leinster, County Carlow, for killing sheep.

[Ferdack]

1787

Feb 4: Shays' Rebellion ends following a defeat at Petersham, MA.

Oct 29: Mozart's Don Giovanni, regarded as one of the greatest operas of all time, premieres in the Estates Theater in Prague. The story goes that he completed the overture of the opera the night before its premiere.

[DarthPorg36]

1788 - February 7 – Sydney is named and founded, by the British Colony of New South Wales

[PRINCE WILLIAM]

1789 Τhe French Revolution. What will start as a fight for freedom and liberties will become an endless war which will leave France humiliated, bloodied and diminished with the loss of much of its empire.

[damo666]

1790 saw the death of Benjamin Franklin and the birth of that one-sided mathematician Mobius.

[DarthPorg36]

1791 - September 5
An ordinance is written barring the game of baseball within 80 yards of the Meeting House in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, the first known reference to the game of baseball in North America.

[Temasek22]

1792 saw King Louis XVI captured and deposed as part of the French Revolution. Marking an end of the streak of Capetian Dynasty rulers in France with started since year 987

[PRINCE WILLIAM]

The revolutionary authorities called the queen the Capet's Widow, which was not accurate as the Capetian line had broken with the death of Fhilip the IV and his sons, which started the Hundred Years War.

1793 King Luis XVI is executed. His son, still a boy, Luis XVII, died in prison, but Luis XVIII returned to the throne.

[DarthPorg36]

1794 - March 14 – Eli Whitney is granted a United States patent for the cotton gin. This invention, although spurring on technological innovation, would sadly ingrain slavery into American society for another 70 years.

[PRINCE WILLIAM]

1795 The British Navy defeated twice the French, one time off the coast of Brittany and the second at Genoa, Italy. This will continue all along the war. France will be many times victorious on land but will lose at sea.

[damo666]

1796 = 2^2*(2^2*10^2+7^2)

[Jamiet99uk]

1797 = 1796 + 1.

[DarthPorg36]

1798 - June 18 – The first of the four Alien and Sedition Acts, the Naturalization Act of 1798, is signed into law by U.S. President Adams, requiring immigrants to wait 14 years rather than five years to become naturalized citizens of the United States. On June 25, another law is signed authorizing the imprisonment and deportation of any non-citizens deemed to be dangerous.

[PRINCE WILLIAM]

1799, Napoleon failed to create a French colony in the Middle East and fled Egypt, leaving behind his "heroic soldiers." Understandably, the French soldiers in Egypt don't appreciate his statements. Not so understandably, the French Directorate proclaims him a hero of the country. To thank them, the Corsican goes on to a coup d'état that overthrows the Directorate and proclaims him as First Consul.

[DarthPorg36]

1-800 is a common prefix for phone numbers of companies or online buisnesses in the United States